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Cargando... The Rotters' Club (Penguin Essentials) (2001 original; edición 2019)por Jonathan Coe (Autor)
Información de la obraEl club de los canallas por Jonathan Coe (2001)
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Many people are shaped by their environment and when there are clashes in cultures, people have to ride these out in accordance with their characters, perhaps none more so than at work and at school. Coe does a good job in relating his characters to the context of the times that they lived through. This was especially fascinating for me as I grew up in London only a few years older than the people in the book and so I could easily relate to the politics and culture of the time. Coe is particularly strong on music (pop culture) which grabbed many people of that era, but his two major themes are racism and the battle between capital and labour, both of which have left England in the sorry state that it finds itself today (in my opinion). Coe never loses sight of the culture, but I think he does lose sight of his characters. The further I read through the novel the less I cared about what happened to the Trotters and the Chases. Other aspects of his writing did not particularly appeal, for example the record reviews or snapshots from the school magazines, and although they at times made me laugh out loud; I thought they got in the way of the story, slowed the narrative flow for no particular reason: my attention wandered.
I was entertained for the most part and I appreciated the placing of the story in Birmingham; a city that seems to have been overlooked by many authors: 3.5 stars from me. ( )